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To: Cronos
I guess the only thing they do agree on is that they are not in The Church

We are of the Catholic(universal) Church, just not in the RCC organization.

In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.

It would seem that the Church Augustine was commenting on above is clearly not the RCC of today where there are NO non-essentials and ALL things must be lock step agreement on penalty of damnation.

389 posted on 06/03/2010 6:59:38 AM PDT by bkaycee
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To: bkaycee
Ok, so do you believe in:
1. infant baptism
2. Bishops and other episcopals, ecclesiastics
3. Consubstantian
4. The Trinity
426 posted on 06/03/2010 7:38:16 AM PDT by Cronos (Origen(200AD)"The Church received from theApostles the tradition of giving Baptism even to infants")
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To: bkaycee
And yes, in essentials unity, unity in the One Catholic and Apostolic Church (Western, Eastern, Oriental or Assyrian). This seems to fit The Church to a T.

You do realise that in terms of non-essentials we'd put this as married men becoming priests or not. The Catholic Maronite rite allows married men to become priests, as does the Catholic Syro-Malabar, the Orthodox, the Orientals, the CAtholic Syro-Malankara etc.

Bachelor priests are not allowed to get married and married priests are not made bishops in any of these and neither are the monks married. These are non-essentials, but the rites have the same dogma, the same creed.

Does your grouping believe in everything in the Nicene Creed (ok, ok, I know you don't agree to the One Holy and Catholic Church, but let's put that aside and use the term "catholic" with a small "c"). Does it?
427 posted on 06/03/2010 7:42:36 AM PDT by Cronos (Origen(200AD)"The Church received from theApostles the tradition of giving Baptism even to infants")
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